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Zheng-Kun He1, Bo-Yu Song2,3, Nan-Wen Zhu1
1School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Abstract:
To investigate the perennial effect of environment adjustment layers on the interior environment and nitrogen transformation in anaerobic bioreactor landfills, three sets of simulated anaerobic bioreactor landfills and two kinds of environment adjustment layers of mineralized refuse with heavy calcium carbonate (R2) and mineralized refuse with natural zeolites (R3) were designed and established. The degradation and transformation of nitrogen in waste and leachate had been monitored for 390 days. The results showed that, the value orders of pH, alkalinity, oxidation reduction potential and moisture content (MS) were pH(R2) > pH(R3) > pH(R1), alkalinity (R2) > alkalinity (R3) > alkalinity (R1), Eh(R2) < Eh(R3) < Eh(R1) and MS(R3) > MS(R2) > MS(R1). In R1, R2 and R3, the degradation rates of total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen in waste were 79.2%, 82.3% and 88.5%, 48.3%, 60.1% and 67.7%, 38.5%, 44.2% and 53.4%, respectively. Concentration comparison results of total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen in leachate were TN(R3) < TN(R2) < TN(R1)、NH4+-N(R3) < NH4+-N(R1) < NH4+-N(R2)NO3--N(R3) < NO3--N(R2) < NO3--N(R1). Additionally, both of mineralized refuse with heavy calcium carbonate and mineralized refuse with natural zeolites could long-term adjust and optimize the interior environment of anaerobic bioreactor landfills for the degradation and conversion of nitrogen. Mineralized waste with natural zeolite could not only promote the degradation and transformation of nitrogen components in waste and leachate, but also control the accumulation of ammonia nitrogen through leachate recirculation.
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